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What is technology?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is technology?

...creatively applied to organised tasks involving people and machines that meet sustainable goals. There are three important aspects to this definition: 1. Technology is about taking action to meet a human need rather than merely understanding the workings of the natural world, which is the goal of science. The invention of the microscope was driven by a need to explore the...
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Introduction to Working with Young People
Education & Development

Introduction to Working with Young People

...creativity. A Madcap Graduate Returns Gawaine's "sorted" - he's got a job here passing on his creative and technical knowledge. Education with a Difference Sue Quinn on how the Project offers young people opportunities for personal growth and pride, as well as an informal arts education. Streetwork A small team of youth workers take to the streets to engage informally...
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Video 1 hr 28 mins
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...Writing a novel is a process of synthesis and you are always waltzing to and fro over the boundary between fact and fiction, with as small a bump as possible, preferably no bump at all. SALLY O’REILLY: Yeah. EMMA DARWIN: And having gone to a lot of trouble to do that I wasn’t going to write long notes explaining exactly where the bump was. SALLY O’REILLY: Do you...
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Alternative pathways into higher education
Education & Development

Alternative pathways into higher education

...creativity it offers, to the challenges of learning independently and preparing for formal study. Through their personal stories, we explore how open educational resources and flexible learning opportunities helped them build confidence, develop study skills, and take their first steps into university life. Whether you’re a home-educating parent, a student thinking...
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Future Technologies: Designing with vision
Science, Maths & Technology

Future Technologies: Designing with vision

...creativity rather than replacing it – this research, a collaboration between the OU and the University of Leeds is aimed at stimulating and generating ideas for designers, the result could have a global effect on the industries of the future... Future Design Tools This video reveals research into some of the very latest design tools. It shows how eye tracking technology...
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Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...writing TMAs, revising for exams, or for making links with later parts of the course. As students you will be using a variety of course materials and you will make notes in a variety of ways probably. You will be using course books, which you may be reading, or listening to on tape, course cassettes like this one you will be listening to, watching TV programmes and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...writes about time, memory, and ideas about identity. It also considers why Woolf’s fiction is often considered difficult. Selected extracts from her essays on writing help to clarify some of these perceived difficulties, illuminating complex patterning and structure in this fictional account of an English village, on a day in June in 1939...This free course introduces...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place
Miscellaneous

New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place

...writing a novel to stargazing, we've got plenty of things for you to take up while you're isolating. Take a look at the FREE tools and courses below and let's come out of this with more knowledge than ever! Find out more about The Open University's Open Degree qualifications. Get writing Have you been itching to get your first novel started and haven't known where to...
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